Mother pleads for her life as her 12-year-old son fires three rounds at her

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BURKE COUNTY, Ga. – A 12-year-old boy is in custody after he fired several shots at his mother while she begged for her life.

Officers say the boy and his mother got into a disagreement about his behavior on Wednesday afternoon.

A short time later they say he went into his parents’ bedroom and got his father’s gun.

“He shot through the door, the bedroom door,” Sgt. Smith told WRDW. “He was in the bedroom and she was in the kitchen area, sitting at the table and the shot basically just went over the top of her head.”

Investigators say the boy opened the door and fired another round at his mother, but it didn’t hit her.